SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 19844, 18 April 1928, Page 1

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. -To-morrow.— Sr. Clair; 1.2 G a.in., 1.50 p.m. Taiaroa Head; 1.3 G a.m., 2 p.m. Uort Chalmers: 2.1(5 a.m., 2.40 p.m. Hunedin; 2.4 G a.m., 3.10 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day, 5.29 p.m.; rises to-mor-row. 6.47 a.m. PHASES OE THE MUON.

WEATHER REPORT. The Dominion Meteorologist (Dr E. Kidson) supplied the tolluwiug at 9 a.m. to-day;— Bar. Ther. W.

Wind. — C, calm; ' a light air; si b, slighl breeze; g b, gentle breeze; m b. moderate breeze; ( b, fresh breeze, sir b, strong Breeze; h w, high wind; g. gale; s g, strong gale; w g. whole gale; «, storm: h, hurricane. Weather.—l 3. blue sky, he the atmosphere clear or heavy; C, clouds, passing clouds; ( U, diizzling rain; b - , foggy; ft, gloomy, dark weather; H, hail; U lightning; M. misty; O, overcast, the whole <ky covered with thick clouds; P, passing showers; 0, squally: R, rain, continued rain; S, snow; T, thunder; U. ugly. Ihieatened appearance; Z, hazy. Forecast.

The Dominion Meteorologist (Dr E Kidson) supplied tho following ' at noon to-day:—The indications are for southerly winds, moderate to strong, but decreasing ; the weather will probably prove cold and showery, but conditions improving, frosts inland next few nights; the barometer has a rising tendency; tides good, sea rough. ARRIVED.—ApriI 17. Breeze, s.s. (G. 15 p.m.). 541’ tons, Al'Kenzie, from Wanganui via ports. SAILED. —April 17. Calm, s.s. (8.15 p.m.), 892 tons, Manson, for Wanganui via ports. The Breeze arrived last evening from Lyttelton, and is timed to depart tonight for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington. and Wanganui. The Calm sailed lasi evening lor Timarn, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Wanganui. Rain has delayed the Wingatui at Wellington, and she was lo leave there to-day for Lyttelton and Dunedin. The Kahika has also been held up oa account of the bad weather at_ Wellington. She is now to leave Napier tj-mnrrow and Gisborne on Saturday for Lyttelton and Dunedin. The vessel will load out, here on Tuesday for Napier and Gisborne via ports.

The Yoseric was to sail this afternoon for Westport for bunkers. She will afterwards load phosphates at Ocean Island for either New Zealand or Australia.

The Shaw, Savill, and Albion steamer Maimoa is duo at Wellington on April 27 from Gladstone (Queensland) to load for London. She will subsequently go to Timaru, Lyttelton, Wanganui, Waikokopn, Gisborne, and Wellington again to complete. The vessel is to sail finally from Wellington on May 22 ior London via Capo Horn. The Port Victor is due at Wellington to-morrow for further Homeward loading. She is to leave the capital city on Sunday for Lyttelton, where she will complete taking in cargo, leaving the Canterbury port finally on z\pril 24 tor London via Montevideo.

The S.S. and A. Line steamer Mamari, now loading at New Plymouth, is to complete at Wanganui, Wellington, Gisborne, and Auckland, being scheduled lo sail from Auckland r or London and West Coast ports via Capo Horn on May 2.

The C. and D. steamer Port Napier was expected to leave Auckland this morning for New York, Boston, and London via Panama. After loading at New Zealand ports, fho steamer Henninius sailed from Wclili’-gbon last evening for London. With coal front Newcastle, the Knponga arrived at Auckland shortly before G o’clock last evening. The Commonwealth and Dominion Lino steamer Port Albany was expected to sail from Wellington to-day; thence New Plymouth and Australian ports, on route to London via Port Said.

THE FERRY SERVICE. The ferry steamer Wahinc. from Wellington, berthed at Lyttelton_ at twenty minutes to seven this morning. Her southern passengers and mails connected with the first express. MANUKA DELAYED. Owing to her late arrival at Wellintgon on account of bad weather, the Union Company’s intercolonial passenger steamer Manuka is now to leave Lyttelton at noon to-morrow for Dunedin with passengers and cargo from Melbourne. She is duo here on Friday, and is lo sail the same afternoon for Bluff and Melbourne. FASTER THAN A TRAIN. To run between Penang and Singapore, a twin-screw steamer, the Kedah, has recently boon built in Barrow-in-Fnrncss to the order of the Straits Steamship Company. When fully loaded the Kedah, travelling at a, speed of eighteen knots, will bo able to do the Pcttang-Singaporc_ trip in about twenty-one hours, which is a shorter time than a train journey. When the vessel was given trials on ihc Firth of Clyde an average speed of nineteen knots was easily attained, and a full power trial of six hours’ duration at the contract speed showed a fuel consumption of 0.531 h of oil per s.h.p. per hour for all purposes. MATATUA AT PANAMA. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion steamer Matatua, cn route from New Zealand io London, is reported to have reached Panama last Wednesday. She was despatched from Auckland on March 18. BRI TWIN'S THIRD PORT. Hull regained its position as the third port in the United Kingdom in 192 G, being surpassed only by London and Livcipool. .Hull’s trade amounted to I £105.457,221 in 192 G, a decrease of 5 per cent, compared with .1925, due largely to the coal stoppage. HERTFORD AT SOUTHAMPTON. A cable message reports that the Hertford arrived at Southampton on April 11. from Wellington eii route to London. The vessel left Wellington cn March 3. NEW DUTCH EASTERN LIN Eli. According to cabled advice, the ]],OUO-ton new oil burner, I.s.s. Nicuw Zeeland, built in Holland for the Royal Packet Navigation Company (K.R.M. Line) for tlie Sumatra-Singapore-Java-Anstralia service, has carried out most successful official trials. The steamer left Rotterdam on April 17, making her initial trip from Palawan Dell (Sumatra) on June 17, arriving at Sydnev on .Inly (5. She will leave Sydney again on July 21 for the East. PERSONAL. Captain W. H. D. Gardner nas assumed command of the Kailnna, relieving Captain ,1. L. Brisco for instructions. Captain Donald M‘Donald has boon appointed to master of the Katina vice Captain A. Reed, who is at present awaiting orders at Wellington. Captain S. A. Chatfield has compktod his holidays, and has been appointed master of the Wingatui, in place of Captain E. G. Hilton, who is a,waiting instructions at Auckland. Air J. E. Warwick has succeeded Mr E. A. Buckingham, chief officer of flic Oonah, who is on holidays. Mr E. Sutherland, chief officer ol the Waipahi. has been invalided ashore at Auckland, and Mr W. Johnson is t> join the vessel as chief officer on her arrival at Wellington. Mr D. J. Rutter has joined the Kaitangata, as third officer, succeeding Air J. C. Sadler, who is on his holidays. Mr L. A. English has taken the place of Afr S. H. Crawford as third officer of the Kakariki. The latter officer is taking his holidays at Sydney. Afcssrs T. Y. Marshall and J. ADNeil’ have joined (he Wnitcmata as second and third officers respectively, relieving Messrs S. A. Smith and S. B. Ward lor orders. Air R. C. Ingram, second officer of the Karctn, has been granted holidays, and Mr D. W. Williams has been appointed to the vessel. The Kamona was recommissioned at Wellington on Saturday in command of Captain G. A. Grey. Messrs J. Warcup and I. B. Dymock arc chief and second officers respectively. Mr Arnold F. Levestam, late of the Union Company, who has been spending a few months in the dominion, returned to Sydney by the Alarama on Friday. VESSELS IN WIRELESS CALL. The following vessels arc expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night;— , ■ Auckland.—Niagara. West Islip, Lubrico, Tonic, Kaiapoi, Port Napier, Renutcra. Chatham Island.—Pakcha, Devon, Port Auckland, Turnkina. Wellington.—Maori, Wahinc, Npaio, Aralmra.. Tnmahine, Aorangi, Iron Crown, Port Victor, Port Adelaide, Herminius, Waipahi, Waihemo, Port Albany, Canadian. Britisher, Kaikorai, Veronica.' Kairnnga, Ikaln. Awarua. — Waikouaiti, • Kia Ora, Yoseric.

EIRE IN BUNKERS. [Psb United Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH. April 17. For a few days past a fire has been burning in one of the bunkers of the Shaw, Savill steamer Mnhia, which arrived at Lyttelton from Dunedin on Monday. Waterside workers have been engaged in taking coal from the bunker in order to got at the lire, but no danger is anticipated. and the services of the fire brigade have not been necessary.

SKIPPER OF THE CUTTY SARK, In an article on the fine old sailing ship Cutty Sark (Short Shirt) and her old skipper Captain WoodgcG who passed away recently at his Norfolk heme. Flinders Barr writes in (he Sydney Morning Herald ’ “ The son of a Burnham fanner, Captain Woodgct passed his last years at Burnham, Ovcry Staith, close to the birthplace of tlic celebrated admiral, and in a house formerly occupied by certain of Lord Nelson’s 1 fiends. As someone who saw him a lew months ago says. lie was a. sturdy, old gentleman, who, in spite of the effects of his illness, walked into the room unaided. He. had a white beard, and was wearing scabouls.” Until very recently he toolc an active interest in sailing, racing himself in various local regattas, and only last summer was the winner of two prizes. The walls of the rooms in his old Norfolk homo are covered with reminders of Ins favorite ship. One oi thes-i is a spirited water-colour by a Captain Holmes, of the Cutty bark leaving Sydney Harbour, and another is a remarkably line photograph ol the ship under sail, taken by the captain himself from a boat, over lorty years ago. In the hall, are two great albatrosses stuffed, bringing memories of the icy blizzards of Cape Horn, and near by, in a glass case, zone of the collies, for which the Cutty bark was famous. The old captain was a great lover of animats, and this favorite dog had been several times round Cape Horn. One of Captain Woodget’s treasures was his log of the Cutty Hark, from which Basil Subbock wrote his delightful book. There, one comes across the entry of that celebrated dav’s run, 363 miles; the total mileage for that week, in 1892, was 2,180, a magnificent performance —13 nautical miles per hour, night and day lor a week, was more than the average steamer could manage in those days, so it was not an unknown thing for the Cutty Sark to overhaul and pass a mail boat, “After he left the Cutty bark, on her being .sold by her owner. Air John Willis, to the Portuguese (who renamed her the Fercira), Captain AVoodget commanded the iron sailing ship Coldinghani for some years previous to his retirement, but ibis latter vessel conhl neve' be to him in any way what Ins old ship had been. In the Cutty Sark ha trained up his own three sons to the sea, which should have made good seamen of them, and he had always a contempt for Hie ‘ steam kettle, as ho termed the steamship. Although a marvellously fast ship, the Cutty park was not (from the point of view of the man before Wa mast) a comlqitable vessel in rough weather, as owing to her fuib lines she shipped a great deal, of water. Owing to her. speed, there was no large pay-days to bo made, but rts a set-off to this, there were not the discomforts attaching on a long and tedious passage to bo borne. Captain Woodget’s long and happy retirement of over thirty years was illumined towards its close, when a year or two ago ho had the, supreme satistaclion ot taking command of his beloved Cutty Sark, when she had returned to her old flag, and was towed ironi Falmouth to Fowev. to act as the flagship at a regatta.' The .’'.'holographs taken ol bis old ship on tbat occasion were very highly-treasured reminders.”

SHIP RING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. April 1 7.--Arrived : Kaponga (5.45 p.m.), Irom Newcastle. Sailed : lonic (8 p.m.), for Napier. WELLINGTON, April 17,—Sailed: Kahika (1 p.m.L for Napier; Storm (4.45 p.m.). for Wanganui; Herminius (5 p.m.), for London; Alanri G.oH p.m.). for Lvttclton. LYTTELTON. April 17.—Arrived: Molmdalc (11.50 p.m.), from Timaru; Kailnna (9.40 p.m.). from Oaniarn. Sailed: Piako (5,50 p.m.), for Wellington ; Holmdale (8.10 p.m.), lor Wellington; Wahinc (8.5 p.m.). lor Wellington. April 18—Arrived : Maori (G.-10 a.m.), from Wellington; Karctn (6.50 a.m.). from Dunedin. TIMARU. April 18... Arrived : Calm (7.45 a.m.), i r '"n Dunedin. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)

New iiiooii April 20 4.55 p.m. First quarter April 27 9.12 a.ra. Full moon Muv 5 7.42 a.m. Last quarter May .13 S.20 p.m. Sets to-day • 4.55 p.m.; rises to-mor-row, 4.57 a.m.

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